Highly diastereoselective photooxygenation of chiral 1,2-dihydronaphthalenes: evidence for a common intermediate in the ene reaction and the [4 + 2] cycloaddition
Abstract
The photooxygenation of chiral 1,2-dihydronaphthalenes exhibits a very high degree of stereoselectivity, which provides evidence for a common intermediate with perepoxide geometry.